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Thursday, 11 August 2016

SharePoint 2013 features overview part 1

SharePoint 2013 is consider to be new way of working together.
SharePoint in simple “Share Point “ Just divide into 2 words, its Point or
central location to share your ideas, moreover you can organize the contents, discover
(search) and manage the contents. Share the knowledge and distribute to other
personnel in teams and organization.

Its product with lot of features called out of the box features,
IT professional can manage the information based on customers’ requirements,
developers can extent the out of the box features and designer can build new
eye catching designs.

·New
authentication, classic mode authentication is no longer
available in Sharepoint 2013, only claim based authentication is available. And
there are lot improvements in it and allows server to server and app
authentication in Sharepoint 2013.

·Business
connectivity services provides a way to connect using oData,
previously only using web service (WCF), SQL and custom using .Net.

·Added new video content type to manage the videos. Easy to display videos on
the pages.

·Thumbnail
preview images are create automatically as you upload the video into Sharepoint
library.

·SharePoint 2013 allows you add iframe inside HTML field on the page.

·It allows you to create image rendition. Which
helps to show different sized images on different pages. Image Renditions feature is available under
the site settings

·Variations for multilingual sites SharePoint 2013 having a new service
called machine translation service.

·Cross site publishing manages the reuse
the contents across multiple site collections.

·SharePoint 2013 added new concept of Catalog enabled list and libraries, its
type of list storing information that can publish across the sites collections,
contents from catalog has been crawled and become part of search index and can
display using content search web part.

·Design
manager is new feature only for publishing sites in Sharepoint. You can
convert html design to Sharepoint master page. You can import & export design
package.

·Device
channels allow you to manage design for different devices by creating different
channels for different devices. By assigning different design to different channel.

·Office
web app, is now available as separate server and we can create office
web server as farm and need to do binding with Sharepoint server, at the same
time office web app can use with Lync and exchange.

·Fast
search is no more. Search architecture is changed and there
are lot enhancements in it please see the details for search service Sharepoint
2013.

·New
Workflow engine , there is new Sharepoint workflow engine
for Sharepoint 2013 build on base of windows workflow manger 4.5, if you
install Sharepoint 2013 and did not install and configure Sharepoint 2013
workflow manager you will only experience Sharepoint 2010 workflows which is
installed automatically with Sharepoint 2013.

·New
service applications

oApp Management service application is
new service application use to manage app available in form, permissions, and
app licenses

oMachine translation service
is new service application used for variation of sites and provide automated
translation of Sharepoint contents

oWork management service application is
new service application, Sharepoint 2013 provide great feature of single view
all assigned task to person, it integrate assigned task from sites , exchange and
project service.